Sounds good to Me.

[Ron Lindquist]

At 01:37 PM 10/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>2 cents worth:...So, "some piano is better than no piano"?
>>Not really.
>>Roy Ulrich
>
>I have to side unequivocally with "Some piano is better than no piano",
>presented by Ron Lindquist, with the a qualification, depending on the
>individual and surrounding circumstances that exist concerning that piano.
>
>I have witnessed individuals progress to remarkable levels with
>unbelievable joy in their hearts on pianos that I personally would not
>consider owning, do not necessarily enjoy servicing, and would easily be
>considered not worthy of receiving any attention by many piano service
>persons.
>
>At the same time, I have witnessed remarkable instruments sitting idly by,
>with no progress or interest from their owners whatsoever, that I
>personally would consider owning, do enjoy servicing, and that would easily
>be considered worthy of any and all efforts to maintain by many piano
>service persons.
>
>>> We are all of course entitled to our own opinions and evalutations...
>>> Richard Brekne
>
>That, of course, is the substance of any generic comments made concerning
>the value or non-value of a piano, especially when qualified as junk, as I
>understand the intent of the word to have originally meant cheap, shoddy,
>or worthless, and is also the substance of any generic comments made
>concerning the worthiness of whether a piano should receive piano service
>or not.
>
>Opinions here, and evaluations there, add up to zilch, unless accompanied
>with relevant information, and that is not easily acquired through internet
>postings, but by actual day to day visitations.
>
>So what I've just posted thus far: is it an opinion, evaluation, judgement,
>view, belief, conviction, notion, sentiment, position, idea, estimation,
>fact, stuff, bilge, trash, idiocy, balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap,
>drivel, eyewash, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, tomfoolery, twaddle,
>whatever...
>
>How will one ever know?  Yes, how will one decide who is telling it like it
>is, who isn't, and all the gray area in between.  Of course, I have no
>choice but to leave it in your capable hands, you, the individual, to make
>the decisions for yourselves, based on your own experience, to ultimately
>decide when, where, and what the real truth is concerning, "Some piano is
>better than no piano."
>
>Anchors away,
>
>Keith McGavern
>Registered Piano Technician
>Oklahoma Chapter 731
>Piano Technicians Guild
>USA
> Are you the Urantian BOOK GUY   ?   (sp)